Yesterday I had three eggs scrambled with cheese, hash browns scattered light with jalapeno peppers, a half order of wheat toast and three cups of coffee with sugar and cream. Oh, and a small glass of water.

Yesterday I had three eggs scrambled with cheese, hash browns scattered light with jalapeno peppers, a half order of wheat toast and three cups of coffee with sugar and cream. Oh, and a small glass of water.

Yesterday I had three eggs scrambled with cheese, hash browns scattered light with jalapeno peppers, a half order of wheat toast and three cups of coffee with sugar and cream. Oh, and a small glass of water.

I remember the exchange was CHestnut Hill 7 I also remember my number and the numbers of some of my friends (we are talking 55+ years.) That's because every time I called, I had to dial the number. Today, if I want to call MsOC's cell phone I hold down 2. Don't ask me what her number is. For that matter don't ask my what my cell number is....I would have to ask my cell phone.

Here's one that I thought of a while ago and now the thread is active I thought I'd mention. Telephone numbers with the 4th digit being a 9 were instantly considered to be a pay phone. Our home phone during the early '70's had a nine for the fourth digit and I used to have a hard time with long distance operators letting me place a call home for my parents to accept the charges. I even got flagged on a job application for putting down a pay phone number in '74.

I don't know if this was universal, but to call those who shared your party line, you had to dial 1191 and hang up. The phone would ring as usual and when it stopped, you knew your partly line picked up and picked up your phone to talk or argue with them.

Growing up in Brooklyn in the 40's and 50's I thought that it was ESplanard but some internet research indicates that it was most likely ESplanade. Well that's good for a Brooklyn kid. I had a girlfriend who lived in Queens, whose father was in the lumber business. Her exchange was SPruce.

I think most of these exchange names were taken from the official Ma Bell list. http://www.ourwebhome.com/TENP/Recommended.html I don't know that many of them had anything to do with the area they were used but apparently there were named exchanges before the official list came out and they were allowed to keep their existing names. The list above references the recommended names with the first 2 numbers.

Gladstone 3-8579 (Delaware). I actually remember when my mom taught me that I had to start dialing 7 digits instead of 5. I also remember when we moved to Arizona to a relatively new area, and my parents were upset that they had to get new phones to do the touch-tone dialing.